{"id":233419,"date":"2026-05-16T01:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233419\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T01:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:39:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nypd-searches-for-man-who-tried-to-rape-woman-inside-prospect-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233419\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nypd Searches For Man Who Tried To Rape Woman Inside Prospect Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are searching for a man who they say tried to rape a 26-year-old woman inside Prospect Park.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say the woman was walking in the park around 7 p.m. on May 8 when the man attacked her from behind.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He wrapped his arms around her before attempting to sexually assault her while exposing himself.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the woman was able to break free from the man, who ended up running away.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She was not injured.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD released a sketch of the man. They say he is around 5 feet, 8 inches tall. He was last seen wearing a black t-shirt, black shorts and a black baseball cap.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD&#8217;s Sex Crimes Hotline at 1-212-267-7273 or 646-610-7272 and the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a man who they say tried to rape a 26-year-old woman inside Prospect Park.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-233419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}